On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, todd glassey <tglas...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 4/12/2010 7:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >> The man did say "carrier class" .. not "small webhost for four >> families and dog". > > yes he did Suresh ... meaning that something larger and more secure than > the off-the-shelf copy of Linux is needed. Funny the NSA and many others > would disagree with you.
I know of (and have been the postmaster for) multiple million user installations that run happily on linux + postfix (and sendmail, qmail..). None that run on one server running webmin, even a 3U server. > or layered as stages within a new system design based on GPU's which > allow for the specific assignment of threads of control to specific > processes. Imaging a cloud type environment running in a single GPU with > the abililty to properly map threads to GPU threads. You don't have "single" of anything at all for large and well scaled environments. > OK our server is 3U but that was because I wanted bigger fans inside > it... The 1U single TESLA based email GW is exactly what you describe - > a 512 thread CUDA based GPU with serious capabilities therein. So how many users do you run on that one 3U box? 100K? 300K? A couple of million? :) The man said carrier class. And when you talk that you dont just talk features, you talk operations on a rather larger scale than what you're describing. --srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)